The functioning of truth in a history text does not depend only on its epistemological conditions, but also on an ethical relation between the historian and the reader. Paul Ricoeur proposed that such ethical relation is ...

Rethinking the writing of the History is a task that has been occupying a considerable place in the production of historians, especially, throughout the 20th century. Considering other subjects, objects and views, the ...

Between the 16th and 17th centuries, historic knowledge is enriched, in Spain, not only with the writing of chronicles that report news pertaining to the New World, but also with the treatises drawn up with the purpose of ...

Hollis Liverpool (The Mighty Chalkdust) has been commissioned along with Michael Anthony and George Goddard, to write the history of the steelband and calls on all knowledgeable persons of the pan fraternity, to come forward ...

By going through the records of the Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute Magazine (RIHGB) between 1901 and 1921, I investigated the participation of Pedro Augusto Carneiro Lessa (1859-1921), Minister of the ...

In Brazil's academic tradition the memorial is a working memories, which is a critical account of the cultural and intellectual history of a university professor, required in process of upgrading of career. This is a ...

Hayden White inaugurated narrativism in philosophy of history when he effected a productive displacement of earlier epistemological discussions around the relationship between narration and historical knowledge: White ...